Slow Feeder Haynet

The Slow Feeder Haynet is designed with smaller feeding holes to encourage horses and ponies to eat their forage more slowly, helping extend feeding time and promote a more gradual eating pattern.

Ideal for horses that tend to finish their hay quickly, the smaller openings limit the amount of forage that can be pulled out with each mouthful. This can help make a hay ration last longer and reduce extended periods without access to forage.

A practical choice for everyday stable feeding, yards, travelling and shows.

Key Features & Benefits

• Small-hole slow feeder haynet.
• Encourages slower forage consumption.
• Helps extend feeding time.
• Makes horses work more gradually for their hay.
• Useful for horses and ponies that eat quickly.
• Can help reduce long periods without forage.
• Encourages a more natural, gradual feeding pattern.
• Suitable for hay and appropriate long-stem forage.
• Useful for stable and yard feeding.
• Convenient for shows and travelling.
• Reusable.

Why Use a Slow Feeder Haynet?

Horses naturally spend a significant proportion of their day eating forage.

When hay is provided loose or in a large-hole haynet, some horses can consume their ration very quickly. A slow feeder haynet makes forage slightly more difficult to access, encouraging the horse to take smaller amounts at a time and spend longer eating.

This can be particularly useful for good doers, horses that eat quickly or feeding programmes where forage intake needs to be managed carefully.

Ideal For

• Horses and ponies that eat hay quickly.
• Extending forage feeding time.
• Good doers.
• Stable feeding.
• Yard use.
• Travelling with horses.
• Shows and competitions.
• Overnight stays.
• Controlled forage-management programmes.

How to Use

Fill the haynet with the horse's appropriate forage ration and secure it to a suitable attachment point.

If your horse has not previously used a small-hole haynet, introduce it gradually and monitor the horse to ensure it can comfortably access the forage.

Always hang and secure the haynet appropriately to minimise the risk of a horse catching a hoof, shoe or other body part in the net.

Supporting Healthy Forage Management

Slow feeding can be a useful part of a horse's overall feeding programme because it can extend the time spent eating forage and reduce lengthy periods without food.

However, a slow feeder haynet should not be described as preventing or treating conditions such as colic or gastric ulcers. Horses with digestive concerns require appropriate veterinary and nutritional advice.

Product Information

Product: Slow Feeder Haynet
Product Type: Small-Hole Haynet
Suitable For: Horses & Ponies
Primary Use: Slower Forage Feeding
Suitable Forage: Hay & Appropriate Long-Stem Forage
Uses: Stable, Yard, Shows & Travel
Reusable: Yes

Exact dimensions, capacity, material, mesh-hole size and available colours were not supplied and should be added once confirmed.

FAQs

What does a slow feeder haynet do?
The smaller openings restrict how much hay the horse can pull out at once, encouraging slower and more gradual forage consumption.

Is it suitable for horses that eat their hay quickly?
Yes. This is one of the primary reasons for using a slow feeder haynet.

Can ponies use it?
Yes, provided the haynet and hole size are appropriate for the individual pony.

Can I use it when travelling?
Yes. Slow feeder haynets can be particularly convenient for travelling, shows and overnight stays when appropriately secured.

Does a slow feeder haynet prevent ulcers or colic?
No haynet can guarantee prevention of colic or gastric ulcers. Slow feeding can support good forage-management practices by extending feeding time, but it is not a treatment for digestive conditions.

Can I put teff in the haynet?
Yes, provided the forage is suitable for the individual horse and works appropriately with the haynet's mesh size.

Safety

Always secure the haynet correctly and inspect it regularly for wear or damage.

Position it appropriately to minimise the risk of the horse catching a hoof or shoe in the net. Take additional care with shod horses and horses that paw while eating.

Replace the haynet if the netting or attachment points become damaged.